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Analysis of Clean Energy Technologies’ Effects on Energy Poverty: Household Air Pollution and Human Health in Vihiga County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Limited access to modern energy is a significant challenge in developing countries, substantially impacting the environment, economy, and human health. Although significant advantages are expected from the ongoing efforts ...
Diversity of Vibrio Cholerae Bacteriophages From Lake Victoria, Coastal and Central Regions of Kenya and Assessment Of Their Potential as Bio Control Agents Against the Pathogen
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease that accounts for more than 10% of children’s deaths
worldwide, has persistently remained a health threat to world’s population at large. It is
endemic in many countries and in ...
Anticancer and Antibacterial Properties of Secondary Metabolites From Three Selected Macaranga Species and Phytochemistry of Ficus Thonningii
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Medicinal plants are essential in human ailment therapy even before modern civilization.The quest for and utilization of these medicinal plants has continued to receive increased interest. Cancer is a major global health ...
Application of Geostatistics to Mineral Resource Modelling and Estimation: Case Study of Gofolo Hill Iron Ore Deposit, Western Liberia
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
The Gofolo Hill deposit, situated over a regional northwest trending shear zone (Todi Shear Zone) on the margin of the Archean West African craton, occurs in one of Liberia's historic iron ore mining districts notable for ...
Enhancing Named Entity Recognition in Low Resource Domains Using Deep Transfer Learning: a Case of Rt&b Crop Diseases in Scientific and Online Text
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is important in fields where researchers
have to review large amounts of scientific text, such as plant pathology.
However, NER is especially difficult in low-resource domains, for ...
Determinants of Adoption of Micro-services in Digital Banking Solutions Among Commercial Banks in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Microservices architecture is a major trend in software development presently. It promotes the componentization concept where a single application is broken down to small and independent services. This study was founded ...
Comparative Analysis of Quantum Encoding Methods in Quantum Neural Networks for Image Classification on the MNIST Dataset
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Quantum computing, a paradigm that utilizes the concepts of quantum mechanics, has emerged
as a transformative force in various fields, including machine learning. Within this setting,
Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have ...
Application of Geospatial Technologies in Monitoring Urban Growth: a Case Study of Ahero Town
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
With over 80% of global GDP created in cities, urbanization may contribute to long-term growth if properly managed. Cities must act fast to plan for expansion and provide the fundamental services, infrastructure, and ...
Factors Influencing Consumer Adoption of Mobile Payments at Equity Bank
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Consumers often conduct financial transactions using mobile wallets, and mobile wallet companies use the most recent, highly secure encryption technology to safeguard consumer information. While consumers are assured that ...
Ecohydrologic Effects of Shade Trees Spacing on Soil Characteristics Affecting Tea Yields and Quality: a Case Study of Moniere Estate in Kipkebe of Sotik Sub-county
(University of Nairobi, 2023)
Shades are used to modify the micro-climatic and environmental conditions which in turn
affect soil hydrologic attributes such as moisture content, hydraulic conductivity, porosity
and the rate infiltration that determine ...